Ammonium
[aˈmoːni̯ʊm]
The verdict
“Ammonium” is uncommon German (frequency #91,265 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,265
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in freier Form nicht beständige Atomgruppe, die Stickstoff und Wasserstoff enthält und sich bei chemischen Reaktionen wie ein Metall verhält
Corpus desk
Index DE-ammonium · Ammonium · German
Ammonium · rank #91,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,265
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH amish
Nearest frequency peer: amish (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Ammonium“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- allgemeingü…
allgemeingültigen
8,740 corpus weight
- althochdeut…
althochdeutsch
8,739 corpus weight
- amicitia
amicitia
8,738 corpus weight
- amish
amish
8,737 corpus weight
- Ammonium
Ammonium
8,736 corpus weight
- amüsierten
amüsierten
8,733 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ammonium“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ammonium |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈmoːni̯ʊm] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ammonium“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ammonium is uncommon German at frequency #91,265 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈmoːni̯ʊm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in freier Form nicht beständige Atomgruppe, die Stickstoff und Wasserstoff enthält und sich bei chemischen Reaktionen wie ein Metall verhält".
No misspelling variants are generated for Ammonium in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Ammonium, spelled A-M-M-O-N-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1in freier Form nicht beständige Atomgruppe, die Stickstoff und Wasserstoff enthält und sich bei chemischen Reaktionen wie ein Metall verhält
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ammonium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Zement kann beträchtliche Mengen von Ammonium enthalten. Zementmörtel gibt das Ammonium an das Wasser ab (WENDLANDT, 1988).“
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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